Programme Manager (M&A)

Are you an experienced programme leader with a passion for delivering complex, large scale change within Mergers and Acquisitions? Do you thrive in a customer centric environment where strategic thinking, leadership, and innovation drive real business impact? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

At Computacenter, our Programme Managers play a pivotal role in helping our customers achieve their business and technology ambitions. You will take end to end accountability on technology integrations — ensuring governance, structure, innovation, and excellence across the Programme.

What you’ll do

Programme & Portfolio Leadership:

• Lead the definition and delivery of large, complex Merger and Acquisition programmes.
• Design programmes that align with organisational strategy, setting clear objectives, scope, and success criteria.
• Oversee multiple delivery teams, ensuring consistent project controls and high quality execution.
• Manage interdependencies across programmes
• Drive continuous improvement through regular reviews, lessons learned, and development of new tools and methodologies.
• Support customers in building strong business cases that demonstrate ROI.
• Define and achieve KPIs that support customer and organisational growth.
• Deliver advisory services, including formal capability and maturity assessments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external and internal stakeholders at all level (including C-Suite)

Financial & Commercial Management:

• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance for programmes and portfolios.
• Manage commercial baselines, statements of work, and contract changes.
• Ensure proactive cost management and revenue forecasting.

Governance & Compliance:

• Develop and maintain governance structures aligned to Computacenter and customer standards.
• Ensure compliance with project, programme, and portfolio management methods.
• Lead assurance activities for all projects within the portfolio.

Team Leadership:

• Coach, mentor, and develop team members to build capability across the function.
• Lead cross functional and culturally diverse teams in alignment with Computacenter’s values.
• Source and shape the right delivery team to meet programme objectives.
• Manage relationships with external partners to ensure aligned delivery outcomes.

Sales Support & Growth:

• Help shape our M&A capability of the future
• Identify and nurture new business opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership to customers and support sales engagements.
• Shape solutions and proposals during presales activities.
• Present methods, solutions, and proposals to customers with confidence

Risk, Opportunity & Change Management:

• Ensure robust change management processes across all programme and portfolio activity.
• Aggregate and manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively identify and manage opportunities for improvement and value creation.

What you’ll bring

• Formal certification in Waterfall or Agile Programme Management (or equivalent)
• Excellent experience within Mergers and Acquisition programmes.
• Proven success in leading large, complex, multi stakeholder initiatives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong commercial and sales awareness.
• Strategic thinker with strong decision making and data driven insight.
• Competent with programme/portfolio tools such as MS Project, JIRA, or ServiceNow SPM.
• Ability to articulate technology propositions clearly and confidently.